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back to the subject here, sportsbybrooks has a great rundown of the very hypocritical writings of Mr Mariotti in light of recent events. And a good portion of them pass judgment before anyone goes to court.

Ok, enough with the personal attacks and ridiculous fight assumptions that have nothing to do with the conversation

QUOTE (J.Reedfan8 @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 11:26 PM) I'll say this. Oakland finally has a legit quarterback under center. Mmmm, i dont know that Jason Campbell is a legit QB

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 22, 2010 -> 09:36 AM) Eh, you can hardly blame Cox for taking a shot there. He has one of his fastest baserunners out there, plus he knows where we are in the game, and that this could potentially end it. Its also not like we leave baserunners on base all of the time either. Because of the circumstances of the doubleheader, you really can't judge the individual plays like you normally would. For example, in a normal game, Santos most likely doesn't pitch at that stage of the game. Heck, most likely, Guillen doesn't allow Garcia to go as long as he did. At that point he was trying to save guys in a game he had a four run lead in, so that he could have his top guys for the night game. I disagree because Lillibridge almost came to a complete stop at second base. It doesnt matter if he is fast, the ball didnt clear the gap, it was cut off. You have to trust that your next hitter can get him in on a sac fly or single and possibly put more runs on the board in that one out situation, instead we have 2 outs and the next batter K's. IMO it was a horrible decision by Cox after a horrible baserunning gaffe by Lillibridge. However, Jenks still gets blame for the loss. He served that single up on a platter. His job is to get outs and he didnt do his job.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 21, 2010 -> 04:54 PM) I googled and got his fanhouse page. One of his articles near the top of the page is him popping off about MLB being too soft on violence. How is this coward going to be able to say anything again? Perhaps there is a God and he is making this clown's career go down the toilet. One can only hope although admitted wife beaters like Neil Steinberg still have a forum to pop off and judge people. did not know this

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 20, 2010 -> 01:48 PM) You don't realize your rants about Kotsay are way more overboard than mine on Jenks? Since everybody hates Kotsay nobody is complaining. All I ask is a quick code sentence like Limbaugh's megadittos so we know you want to blast Kotsay without having to go through the whole thing again. We get the picture so you don't need to "continue to talk about it." I guess you don't read very well. I don't want Kotsay on the team, either. I do, however, love Dwyane Wise. You are right there. I guess technically I am rooting for Kotsay if he's in the lineup though, because I want to win. More often than not he rewards me with a weak tapper to second or weak fly out. If I wrote your last sentence I'd get a warning letter probably for baiting somebody. Hope you enjoy the one you most assuredly will be receiving soon. Telling me what to do and assuming I have Fatheads on the wall is good bait for a fight. You know not of what you speak. Sarcasm isnt the same as what you were doing when you were warned

QUOTE (T R U @ Aug 20, 2010 -> 02:05 AM) Piranha was a fun movie.. if you like boobs and people getting ripped to shreds, you should see it Kelly Brook FTW

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 11:55 PM) Nice response, I'll give you that. You are saying Ozzie blasted the clients and an employer could expect to be upset that an employee cussed out the client base, in this case the fan base. I can see your point on that. I guess if you look at it that way, yes that could be a fireable offense. I'm too tired now to come up with a counter argument, but I'll think on it. I could simply say sports are different. I do like the fact he doesn't buttkiss up to Kenny. He does a bit to Jerry, but more than anything shows elderly jerry respect. I would like to respond to the poster who said Oz should think outside the box. Was it thinking outside the box in '05 letting all those guys throw complete games? Every other manager would have brought in the closer, maybe even set up men, then closers. Oz let them finish the game and we benefited that postseason by it and won it all. Was that thinking outside the box? Damn right. No other manager would ever have let guys all throw complete games like that. We got a WS title as a result partly of his thinking outside the box. And don't say I'm living in '05. I reallize you all think that anyway. My point I feel is valid example of him thinking outside the box and it's the first one that came to my mind. You could say that, yet you are the one that compared Ozzies job to the real world

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 20, 2010 -> 08:38 AM) You can go to the mouth as long as you aren't on the rubber. that sounds dirty

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 20, 2010 -> 12:02 AM) What say you all on these developments as reported by the Chicago Tribune? The tension will be high in KC if we hold a lead entering the ninth as Bobby returns to his closer role. Are you satisfied with this or do you wish Ozzie would give it to Thornton right now with Bobby visually appearing fatter than previous seasons and Thornton apparently healthy and available to close in this, his first season as an All-Star? This is quality analysis greg. You really know how to break down the numbers when it comes to Jenks

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 11:49 AM) Wait a second, girls lie about being on the pill??? Oh, s***.... You in TRUB ULLLLLL

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 11:35 AM) Ozzie will do whatever he wants to do. I think against Baker, maybe Teahen had really really good stats (could be wrong) and Kotsay was in the starting line-up despite rather pedestrian ones. Ozzie's greatest strength is also his weakness. He was loyal to JD, even after the trade for Rios, and that's one of the reasons they let him go...JD is either not playing or an everyday player, simple. Basically the same as Thome in Ozzie's mind. Didnt Kotsay have a homer and a double against Baker? QUOTE (LVSoxFan @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 11:34 AM) a) I am SO tired of hearing that all our problems basically come down to: we didn't bring back Thome. Geesh. That's it, huh? The key between good season/lost season? Was our DH? Thome? B) It's probably too late, but I think it's time Ozzie--or Kenny--gave a "Herb Brooks" speech to the team, like the one he gave them before 1980 game against the Russians. Everybody has this insanely overrated idea of the Twins, just as everyone feared the Soviets back then. He mocked them in front of his team, relentlessly. He said they could be beat, and they could do it. I am done with, as somebody else here so perfectly put it, the games following a "script" when it comes to the Twins. I thought it was allegedly the Metrodome that was supposed to be the culprit! Apparently not. I think it's mental, just like it used to be with Oakland. On the other hand, we haven't been winning when we should have all season (against division rivals, against sh*t teams like Baltimore), so maybe we just aren't that good. used to be?

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Aug 19, 2010 -> 11:30 AM) Dude has some potent juice. or refuses to wrap it up and is dumb enough to buy into the theory that she is taking her pill

QUOTE (MattZakrowski @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 07:09 PM) I don't need to know how every situation worked out because I know that sacrificing outs is unproductive. And for a team that's afraid of PK rolling into DPs, we set ourselves up for that exact outcome last night with the sac bunt in the 10th. RON GARDENHIRE WAS SO UNPRODUCTIVE LAST INNING OMGZZZZZ

QUOTE (MattZakrowski @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 07:00 PM) I wouldn't know where to find that for individual teams, TBH. then how can you be so sure that giving up those outs didnt help the team? You would almost have to break them down game by game to see how many runs the Sox won by, how the situation played out, etc. before you can state "we are tied for first in outs given up and thats why ozzie sucks" and be right. Its ugly when it doesnt work, I know. But if it didnt help, then nobody would do it. And saying swing away for every out you have doesnt always work when your team has players like Konerko who can roll into a double play faster than a blink of an eye. Its frustrating to see every armchair manager point out every single thing and act like Ozzie is the only one that does it, because he doesnt.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 03:57 PM) Guess you never heard of San Diego. ahhhhhhh perfect

QUOTE (MattZakrowski @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 06:38 PM) He has done it more than any manager in the American League (t-1st SH) how many of those were converted to runs? Just curious, I dont know.

QUOTE (MattZakrowski @ Aug 18, 2010 -> 06:32 PM) Pierre's stealing at a rate that makes him roughly a wash, but other than him and Andruw Jones of all people, every other player's SB rate is below the league average of 73%. And sac bunts are not good. Even with AJP's .277 OBP (note: Ozzie should start Castro more), .277>.000. Outs are a limited commodity. You get 27 in a game, 3 at a time to score as many runs as possible, and giving them away through sac bunts is not productive. you should be a manager.

Im pretty sure Ozzie is the only manager in the majors that uses the sac bunt, so he is the only manager giving away outs

in Wall-E when he finally got to hold the girl robots hand

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 16, 2010 -> 08:32 AM) Toilet at home stopped working, wife is sick, and fell off bike on way to work today. Not an auspicious start to the week. It can only go up from here. Well, hopefully the toilet ends up going down

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Aug 15, 2010 -> 08:30 PM) Oh yeah. The movie is bad enough, but the book is very disturbing. The scene in the book where Gage's father and grandfather get into a fight at the funeral and knock over the coffin and Gage falls out.....incredibly disturbing

QUOTE (KipWellsFan @ Aug 14, 2010 -> 08:22 PM) He said diseased not deceased. Any when I was younger this movie was pretty traumatizing. One of my favorite's now. i interpreted it as him meaning deceased because he led it with "came back to life"

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 14, 2010 -> 04:09 PM) So much for that, Most of those 2007 pitchers must have been a bit overhyped as flamethrowers because they just weren't very good at pitching. It's pretty awesome that you can find all that info on FanGraphs though. I would actually say that they could all throw harder than they were, but Coop was trying to get them to have better control by not throwing as hard.

QUOTE (The Beast @ Aug 14, 2010 -> 12:14 PM) Last night I strongly objected to watching Seven with a group of friends, as certain scenes of the movie just give me the creeps. Specifically the following: -The third of the sins that they uncover, where the sloth is mutilated and comes back to life while diseased. -When they uncover the lust sin, it shows a guy who is yelling "get this thing off of me" and then tells the story of what happens when he has sex with the prostitute. -When the wife's head gets cut off at the end and Brad Pitt's character knows his unborn child is dead, too. he was never dead, Kevin Spaceys character kept him barely alive with drugs and minimal nourishment to extend the torture for his sin. Good movie, dont know why it would strongly objectionable